Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are getting in top shape this summer to tackle the physically demanding stories awaiting them this fall on Glee. I caught up with the real-life couple at the 11th Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball benefiting L.A.'s homeless and cosponsored by Grey Goose Vodka.

When Glee returns to Fox on Sept. 13, Kate Hudson will have joined the cast as a hard-ass New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts dance instructor, pitting her against new student Rachel (Michele). "Dance is not Rachel's strong point, but as a freshman it's a requirement class she has to take," Michele says. "It will put Rachel in a very vulnerable place, stuck with a teacher who doesn't make it easy for her."

When Michele admits that dancing "is definitely not my strong point, either," Monteith jokingly pipes in that his girl will be spending her summer "enrolled in tap classes on Wednesdays and hip-hop on Thursdays."

As for Monteith's Finn, it sounds as though he's headed to Army boot camp! "Finn would have to be in very good shape and get incredibly fit, meaning I would have to be incredibly fit," says the actor. "I'm doing extra stuff this summer — CrossFit and fewer Snickers bars."

And Kurt (Chris Colfer)? Expect him to find his way to New York City — but not as a student at NYADA, which will hold firm on its rejection. Instead, "he will find himself in an establishment where Sarah Jessica Parker is his manager of sorts, but not in a performance sense," Colfer told me at the Critics' Choice Television Awards.

Michele has heard that Parker's character may be giving Rachel a makeover, which suggests a New York fashion-world story line for Kurt. Says Colfer: "Lea's a hot girl, [but] Rachel could lose the baby-doll dresses."

Dammit, I'm curious now. I may not be able to stop watching like I said I would. But how is this going to work? Are there still scenes at the school? And then scenes in NY? Here I thought we were just getting rid of the characters that graduated. And is it going to be just Kurt, Rachel, and Finn, or do we get Puck and Santana too? So many questions!

Well that was awful, with a few barely-redeeming moments featuring Whoopi and the new kids who can sing. They even ruined my moment of being excited that Wade/Unique is (by the magic of teevee) back by suddenly having Brittany cross the line from ditzy to racist. I'm giving it one more week.

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I'm a little disturbed that they've now made 2 racist jokes (through Brittany, as if her stupidity makes it OK). Not cool. Also, Lea Michele seems to have quite veganism, which I guess makes it OK that suddenly Rachel is cooking duck for some dude with no explanation as to why she's suddenly no longer vegan (if the writers even remember that she was supposed to be).

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Rumor has it (via gamer friends) that this show, which is all about being inclusive and stuff, has shown the school's gaming club as a bunch of twitchy nerds, worthy only of contemptuous mockery.

Is this true? I don't care enough about the show to watch the episode... (Plus when they do songs I like it makes me want to stick toothpicks through my eardrums.)

Well, the one scene I can recall with any kind of gamers was when Blaine joined the D&D club and everyone was in costume (so it was really more LARPing than D&D). It was in a montage, so they didn't really have any lines or anything, but they did look kinda ridiculous. I'm pretty sure there was a woman dressed as a princess or something throwing glitter around. Or maybe I'm confusing that with Blaine (dressed as a wizard, with the pointy hat) sprinkling glitter (or some substance) on something.

Also, I watch online, so I skip most of the songs. Most of the time, they either do a song I neither know nor want to hear, or they do a song I like that I don't want to hear butchered. I listened to Blaine/Darren's version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", which wasn't bad, but it was incredibly sterile.

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In the first episode, Brittany said to Unique (who was not dressed as Unique at the time but I can't remember his name) something like, "Mercedes, I thought you graduated". In the most recent episode, when asked what her favourite colour was, she said, I think, Filipino. I don't know if there were more that I missed, but those two stood out to me.

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In the first episode, Brittany said to Unique (who was not dressed as Unique at the time but I can't remember his name) something like, "Mercedes, I thought you graduated". In the most recent episode, when asked what her favourite colour was, she said, I think, Filipino. I don't know if there were more that I missed, but those two stood out to me.

Wade.

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